To get back to the game, in the post-mortem analyses a lot of violent sequences appeared on the board on the lower side, mostly starting with aggressive play from White. Cho, however, said, "Well, you know, White here played a bamboo joint (32), which is pretty solid but a defensive move. When White played it I felt that he was not ready yet to get down to heavy fighting. Yamashita seemed to bide his time to choose a different part of the board to make it difficult for me."
Move 32
Shigeno Yuki 2-dan, Miyagawa Fumihiko 7-dan (director of the Nihon Ki-in Central Japan branch), Yamashiro Hiroshi 9-dan and Miyamoto Naoki 9-dan all had a try at what would have happened if white, instead of at 32, had cut at A.
Intense activity in the press room. Pictures are mostly by Pieter, but Western go's
friend Yuki, centre, also helped out.
The pictures below show two results which were both unsatisfactory for White. To be honest, though, in the 20 minutes or so the three pros spent analysing, they could not find a watertight solution to the problem. It seems that Yamashita defended in the game at 32 because he also wasn't confident in the outcome, and felt Cho was ready for him if he did actually cut.
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| Press-room results from the cut instead of White 32 |